A Deep Dive into a Sustainable Future| TiEcon 2022
When & Where
Friday, May 6
9:00 am - 11:30 am PST
Virtual
Sustainability and the Circular Economy
Sustainability is no longer a subject of debate among climate activists, government policymakers, & international scientific experts. In Silicon Valley and beyond, it is big business attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in startup and investment capital annually, and that number in 2022 is expected to grow at an accelerating rate. The time for a greener, sustainable, and highly profitable economic growth spurt is now.This highly anticipated track brings together leading voices and business executives to discuss the practical next steps that corporations, governments, and investment funds are taking to supercharge sustainable growth around the world.
Track Agenda
- 05/06/2022 | 9:00 am – 9:20 am PDT
- 20 mins Hall CSpeakers
Dr. Ali Nouri leads the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs as an Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy. He was previously serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in that office. Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Dr. Nouri was the President of the Federation of American Scientists, a public policy organization focused on countering WMDs, addressing emerging infectious diseases, and crafting solutions to energy and innovation challenges. Under his leadership, the organization also tackled science denialism and COVID-19 misinformation by providing timely, science-based information to policy makers and to the public. Previously, Dr. Nouri served as an advisor in the U.S. Senate for nearly a decade, including six years for a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. During his time in the Senate, he served in various positions including as an Energy and Environment Advisor, a National Security Advisor, and as a Legislative Director. Prior to that, Dr. Nouri served as an advisor to the office of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan where he developed initiatives to block biotechnology from being used to produce biological weapons. He earned a B.A. in biology from Reed College and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Princeton University. He resides in Washington D.C. with his wife, Logan Gibson, and their two sons.
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- 05/06/2022 | 9:20 am – 9:40 am PDT
- 20 mins Hall CSpeakers Transition dean of Stanford’s new school focused on climate and sustainabilityStanford University Dr Kathryn Ann MolerTransition dean of Stanford’s new school focused on climate and sustainability
Stanford UniversityKathryn A."Kam" Moler is the Vice Provost and Dean of Research, the Marvin Chodorow Professor, and Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics at Stanford University. She conducts research in magnetic imaging, develops tools that measure nanoscale magnetic fields, and studies quantum materials and devices. Among other honors, she received a national Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, held a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, received the William L. McMillan Award “for her fundamental studies of the superconducting pairing state, Josephson vortices, and the role of interlayer coupling in high-temperature superconductors,” she is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. To honor her sustained commitment to teaching, the American Association of Physics Teachers awarded her the Richtmyer Award for Outstanding Leadership in Physics Education, and Stanford appointed her as the Sapp Family Fellow in Undergraduate Education. She was previously the Senior Associate Dean of Natural Sciences in the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Director of the Stanford Nano Shared Facilities. She is a member of the NanoFront (TU-Delft/Leiden) Scientific Advisory Board, the Physics Frontier Center—Joint Quantum Institute Advisory Board, Co-Chair of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (NQIAC), and a member of NASEM (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) National Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable
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- 05/06/2022 | 9:40 am – 10:10 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall CSpeakers A Women in Tech International Hall of Famer and trailblazer, Dr Jaleh Daie is passionate about improving the human condition. She is a multifaceted thought leader whose career spans academia, business, philanthropy, government and NGOs, A noted research biologist, Jaleh is an investor, board director, keynoter & strategic advisor. She has served the administrations of three Presidents and collaborated/worked in several countries. Her success in navigating disparate careers in both private & public sectors stems from her ability to apply the appropriate mental model to each role. As a strategic thinker, Jaleh has served on numerous boards as director, board chairman, board secretary and board treasurer as well as chair of charity galas helping to raise millions of dollars for her causes. She continues her community service by currently serving on four national/international non-profit boards. Currently, she is a Partner at Aurora Equity & Founder/Chair of AgFood Tech at the Silicon Valley-based Band of Angels, the original organized Angel group. Previously, she was head of STEM at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation giving multi-million-dollar research grants. She has worked on Presidential initiatives with President’s National Science & Tech Council and as a special assistant to Chief Scientist at NOAA. Jaleh began her career at Rutgers Univ. & UW-Madison, where she was a professor (made full professor in 6 years); senior science adviser to the President of the 26-campus UW-System; academic Dept. Chair (1st woman in her field); Founder/Chief Executive of multidisciplinary academic centre & founder/Director of a university-wide graduate program. Jaleh’s honors include LSQ Ambassador (Australia), Biotech Distinguished Speaker (South Africa), a US Congressional Citation, Henry Rutgers Fellow, Honorary Naval Aviator, Hon. Life Girl Scouts, Teksia Lifetime Achievement; Honorary doctorate degree; AAAS & AWIS Fellow. Leaders of Science, among others.
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- 05/06/2022 | 10:10 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 20 mins Hall CSpeakers Dr. Rao MulpuriCEO
ViewDr. Rao Mulpuri is the CEO of View, a technology company that creates smart and connected buildings to improve people’s physical and mental health, while simultaneously reducing energy consumption. Since its inception ten years ago, View has developed groundbreaking technology and products that are now installed in and designed into more than 90M square feet of buildings—and counting. Prior to View, Dr. Mulpuri held several executive positions at Novellus Systems, most recently President of Novellus Systems Japan. He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India, as well as an MS in Manufacturing Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Boston University. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Dr. Mulpuri is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and the Urban Land Institute and serves on the Executive Board of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Boston University, and the Advisory Board of Stanford University CARE.
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- 05/06/2022 | 10:30 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall CSpeakers Brad Surak is the CPO of Turntide Technologies. Brad joined Turntide in 2021 after serving at Hitachi Vantara. As president of digital solutions, he spearheaded the transformation of this 110-year-old global company into a digital solutions leader. He has also served as COO at GE Digital and GM of Mobile Analytic Applications at SAP. Arielle Gross Samuels is the Global Head of ESG Business at Facebook. She founded and leads a global team that builds initiatives and strategic partnerships focused on ESG, social good, and business equality in service of 200M+ businesses around the world. Key initiatives include running Facebook’s grants program to provide $40M to 10K Black-owned businesses in the US to boost liquidity for those businesses hit hardest by COVID-19, overseeing Facebook’s commitments towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 ‘decent work and economic growth, and leading Facebook’s business sustainability presence through initiatives like Communities for Recycling – a Messenger experience to improve recycling. Her accolades include being named a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Marketing and Advertising, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeeper, Board Member of the Geena Davis Institute of Gender in Media, Board Member of Girl Up – United Nations Foundation, Board Director of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, Adweek Executive Mentor, Representative on the United Nations Women Global Innovation Coalition for Change, Lead of Facebook Women New York, Founding Member of Chief, and Advisor for #BuiltByGirls. Samuels holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, where she founded the Arielle Gross Engineering Visionary Scholarship Fund to accelerate the diversity of engineering students. Tony Pan is the co-founder and CEO of Modern Electron. Modern Electron is democratizing energy generation to make energy greener and more affordable. Buildings are responsible for more CO2 emissions than any other sector of the economy. Modern Electron's tech enables distributed energy generation in buildings, even in our homes. This saves money, reduces carbon emissions, and complements renewables. Dr. Pan is a co-inventor on 250+ patents pending in deep tech, spanning energy & climate, nanotechnology, and biomedical devices. His past experiences include pro bono consulting on global health for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and for the Global Good Fund. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he served as a member of the Global Future Councils on Entrepreneurship & Energy, and was a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum. He has been named to Forbes 30 under 30, MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35, and the Business Journal's 40 under 40. During his PhD at Harvard, his national recognitions include the Hertz, Soros, and the National Science Foundation fellowships. Tony grew up in Taiwan, Scotland, and Korea, and was the first in his family to immigrate to the USA. Jonathan Shieber is the chief editor and a venture partner at FootPrint Coalition. He previously worked as Climate Editor, Contributors Editor, and a Senior Editor and writer at TechCrunch. Before TC he was a reporter covering venture capital and private equity investment in the U.S. and China at Dow Jones & Co. with work published in Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
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- 05/06/2022 | 11:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall CSpeakers Dr Jennifer Holmgren is CEO of the revolutionary carbon recycling company, LanzaTech. Prior to joining LanzaTech, Dr Holmgren was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company. She was one of the key drivers of UOP’s leadership in aviation biofuels, and under her management, UOP technology became instrumental in producing nearly all of the initial fuels used by commercial airlines and the military for testing and certification of alternative aviation fuels. Today, under Dr Holmgren’s guidance, LanzaTech is working towards developing a variety of platform chemicals and fuels, including the world’s first alternative jet fuel derived from industrial waste gases. Dr Holmgren is the author or co-author of 50 US patents and more than 30 scientific publications. In 2003, she was the first woman awarded the Malcolm E. Pruitt Award from the Council for Chemical Research (CCR). In 2010, she was the recipient of the Leadership Award from the Civil Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) for her work in establishing the technical and commercial viability of sustainable aviation biofuels. In 2015 Dr Holmgren and her team at LanzaTech were awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Presidential Green Chemistry Award and she was awarded the BIO Rosalind Franklin Award for Leadership in Industrial Biotechnology. Sustainability magazine, Salt, named Dr Holmgren, the world’s most compassionate businesswoman in 2015. In October 2015, Dr Holmgren was awarded the Outstanding Leader Award in Corporate Social Innovation from the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago. Dr Holmgren was named as #1 of the 100 influential leaders in the Bioeconomy by Biofuels Digest for 2016-2017. Jillian Manus is an experienced banking and media executive, a technology investor and entrepreneur. She is Managing Partner of an early stage Silicon Valley venture fund, Structure Capital. Branded” Architects of the Zero Waste Economy” they invest in underutilized assets and excess capacity. Jillian serves on numerous boards including: Stanford University Digital Health, Stanford University School of Medicine Board of Fellows, Advisory Board of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center Board of Directors, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Communities in Schools. Prior to Structure Capital, Jillian was Founder of Broad Strategy, Manus Media and Global Goal Sports Management. She served as Co- Director of TMT for Credit Suisse Zurich, and Director of Development for Universal and Warner Bros and Associate Publisher of the national publication Upside, reporting on the financial strategies of the technology industry. As a frequent global public speaker, Jillian provides business and political commentary in the media, primarily on CNBC’s Squawk Alley and Bloomberg Business news. She also co-hosts Gimlet Media’s business podcast “The Pitch.” Ms. Manus attended The University of Oxford & NYU, where she served on the Board of Trustees. Throughout her careers, she has been a strong advocate for inclusion and diversity, frequently speaking on the topic of “Investing in Values, not just Valuations”.
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Track Chairs
A Women in Tech International Hall of Famer and trailblazer, Dr Jaleh Daie is passionate about improving the human condition. She is a multifaceted thought leader whose career spans academia, business, philanthropy, government and NGOs, A noted research biologist, Jaleh is investor, board director, keynoter & strategic advisor. She has served the administrations of three Presidents and collaborated/worked in several countries. Her success in navigating disparate careers in both private & public sectors stem from her ability to apply the appropriate mental model to each role. As a strategic thinker, Jaleh has served on numerous boards as director, board chairman, board secretary and board treasurer as well as chair of charity galas helping to raise millions of dollars for her causes. She continues her community service by currently serving on four national/international non-profit boards.
Currently, she is Partner at Aurora Equity & Founder/Chair of AgFood Tech at the Silicon Valley-based Band of Angels, the original organized Angel group. Previously, she was head of STEM at David & Lucile Packard Foundation giving multi-million-dollar research grants. She has worked on Presidential initiatives with President's National Science & Tech Council and as special assistant to Chief Scientist at NOAA. Jaleh began her career at Rutgers Univ. & UW-Madison, where she was professor (made full professor in 6 years); senior science adviser to the President of the 26-campus UW-System; academic Dept. Chair (1st women in her filed); Founder/Chief Executive of multidisciplinary academic center & founder/Director of a university-wide graduate program.
Jaleh's honors include: LSQ Ambassador (Australia), Biotech Distinguished Speaker (South Africa), a US Congressional Citation, Henry Rutgers Fellow, Honorary Naval Aviator, Hon. Life Girl Scouts, Teksia Lifetime Achievement; Honorary doctorate degree; AAAS & AWIS Fellow. Leaders of Science, among others.
Sarah B. Johnson is a Client Account Lead for Accenture in their Resources (energy & utilities) practice, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sarah consults with energy and utility companies to solve their most pressing issues while planning for sustainable growth. Previously, Sarah worked for utility and energy companies, including those listed on the Fortune 150. Her experience is in identifying and developing growth plans into new markets throughout the U.S. Having worked in Europe and Asia, Sarah is experienced with US and international business strategy. She has spoken to audiences on topics including: government incentives, energy, utilities and market trends. In her free time, Sarah enjoys traveling, spending time with friends and family and hiking with her rescue dog. Sarah earned an BA in Communications and Journalism from Hawaii Pacific University and an MBA from St. Mary's College of California.
Dr. Bradley Naranch
Lead Guide
SV1000
SV1000
Dr. Bradley Naranch is Lead Guide at SV1000, the world's #1 learning accelerator created to solve the world's most complex challenges before it is too late. In 2023, SV1000 global seminars will take place in Baja, Mexico (Wealth and Resources), Napa Valley (Sustainable Living), California, Park City, Utah (Economic Growth and Wilderness Preservation), and Hawaii (Controlling Climate Change).
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All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
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Capital Markets
Conversations from IPO to Exits, a 360 degree view on investments
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Cloud & SaaS
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
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Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
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Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
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Healthcare
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
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Convergence of Art and Technology
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Security & Fraud
Responding to Identity Theft, Fraud and Cybercrime
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Dare to Change the World for Good
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Recent Supply Chain Challenges - is there a Way Out?
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